The vihuela in the twenty-first century. This project will produce resources for researchers of the Spanish renaissance vihuela de mano embodying all available source material and scholarly research in a public website and a comprehensive monograph. This will provide 21st century researchers, performers and readers with tools for them to interact with the assembled knowledge sources.
Canonic Techniques and Musical Change from c.1330 to c.1530. This project aims to reconceptualise current understandings of musical composition from circa 1330 to circa 1530. Employing innovative computational tools, it aims to show for the first time the specific techniques that composers employed to create different kinds of musical canons. The resulting monograph will seek to make a substantive and original contribution to the history of compositional practice and demonstrate the fundamental ....Canonic Techniques and Musical Change from c.1330 to c.1530. This project aims to reconceptualise current understandings of musical composition from circa 1330 to circa 1530. Employing innovative computational tools, it aims to show for the first time the specific techniques that composers employed to create different kinds of musical canons. The resulting monograph will seek to make a substantive and original contribution to the history of compositional practice and demonstrate the fundamental role played by canonic techniques in broader sociocultural functions and uses of music.Read moreRead less
The well-travelled musician: John Sigismond Cousser and cultures of musical exchange in Baroque Europe. Baroque Europe witnessed the extensive dissemination of two main musical styles: the French and the Italian. This innovative project, which focuses on the unique notebook of widely-travelled musician J. S. Cousser, will re-write current notions of how musicians' networks operated, contributing to a fuller picture of the development of European music.
Performing transdisciplinarity. This project aims to use the illustrated songbook, a performative genre which fuses image, music and text, to study the transdisciplinary nature of 18th-century print culture. Through multifaceted research on an exemplary songbook, this project will create a multimedia digital interface for linking deep disciplinary knowledge and the recreation of the sounds, sensibilities, and social mores of 18th-century France. The project's model of rich digital understanding ....Performing transdisciplinarity. This project aims to use the illustrated songbook, a performative genre which fuses image, music and text, to study the transdisciplinary nature of 18th-century print culture. Through multifaceted research on an exemplary songbook, this project will create a multimedia digital interface for linking deep disciplinary knowledge and the recreation of the sounds, sensibilities, and social mores of 18th-century France. The project's model of rich digital understanding has potential benefits for cultural institutions whose complex objects lie dormant or underused.Read moreRead less
The art and science of canon in the music of early 17th-century Rome. This project aims to investigate the cultivation of musical canons by early 17th-century Roman composers and assess how the spirit of experimentation in these compositions relates to contemporary scientific thought. The project will use innovative computational tools to identify compositional choices in musical canon. It will investigate how creative forces arising from early 17th-century scientific thought motivated these cho ....The art and science of canon in the music of early 17th-century Rome. This project aims to investigate the cultivation of musical canons by early 17th-century Roman composers and assess how the spirit of experimentation in these compositions relates to contemporary scientific thought. The project will use innovative computational tools to identify compositional choices in musical canon. It will investigate how creative forces arising from early 17th-century scientific thought motivated these choices. The project intends to transform historical and aesthetic understanding of this repertoire and reshape current narratives about the musical priorities of this period. This will significantly benefit understanding of the relationship between advances in the sciences, arts and music in the early 17th century.Read moreRead less